Firefighter/paramedic Ruben Mercado with the Burbank Fire Department smiles as he hands off a free ice cream cone as a donation is being placed in the bag at Haagen-Dazs in the Burbank Town Center on Tuesday, February 5, 2013. The firemen were giving out free scoops of ice cream and asking for donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Firefighter/paramedic Ruben Mercado with the Burbank Fire Department smiles as he hands off a free ice cream cone as a donation is being placed in the bag at Haagen-Dazs in the Burbank Town Center on Tuesday, February 5, 2013. The firemen were giving out free scoops of ice cream and asking for donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)

Firefighter/paramedic Ruben Mercado with the Burbank Fire Department smiles as he hands off a free ice cream cone as a donation is being placed in the bag at Haagen-Dazs in the Burbank Town Center on Tuesday, February 5, 2013. The firemen were giving out free scoops of ice cream and asking for donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.